*+Photosharing+and+Tagging

Photosharing and Tagging
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Web 2.0 contains many sites that allow your to store, share and access photos and images. These image hosts will then store the image onto its server, and allow others to view that image. One of these sites is [|Flickr] which is a searchable, social, user-driven community. //(The picture words above were created in [|Spell with Flickr]. Click any letter to see original image with attribution and CC license. Follow the same steps as Placing videos in your Wiki except select "Other HTML")//

Tagging
The power of sites like Flickr is they allow for [|tagging], which is the process of adding keywords to photos (or any type of content). Flickr's public photo tags are visible to the whole community, so the entire collection becomes organized and categorized, searchable and browsable. Flickr users can also comment on each others' photos and [|create Groups] to develop photo pools (shared photo collections) and have discussions about any topic or interest. A **folksonomy** evolves over time, as more users add more tags to more content. Compared to library subject headings (structured, professionally developed, controlled and agreed upon) taxonomy tagging is a created by the individual users, personalised and is non-heirarchical (no "sub-tags").
 * Tagging**, which is a defining characteristic of [|Web 2.0] services, allows users to collectively classify and find information. **Photo tagging** in sites like Flickr is an example of a [|folksonomy] which is a system of classification derived from the process of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content ; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging.

Flickr Resources

 * Educause -[| 7 things you should know about Flickr]
 * Josh Lowenstein - [|Newbie's Guide to Flickr]

Classroom Uses of Flickr

 * ** David Jakes - ** [|Classroom Uses of Flickr]
 * David Jakes - [|Flickr Resources]
 * Anne Davis - [|Putting the Pedagogy into the Tools: Flickr]
 * ** Alan Levine ** - // What Can We Do With Flickr? //
 * [|Tell Stories or Support Writing Activities]
 * [|Create (or enhance) Slideshows and Visual Presentations]
 * [|Add Notes, Annotations and Hyperlinks to Photos]
 * [|Create Groups to Share Photos and have Online Discussions Around a Particular Topic, Theme or Idea]
 * Teacher Dude - [|Teaching Vocabulary Using Flickr]
 * Darren Kuropatwa (via CoolCatTeacher) - [|Fascinating Flickr Assignment to Teach Math] (A high school Trigonometry project. Be sure to check out the student projects and the project rubric!)
 * MisterTeacher's Flickr For Teachers - [|Blogging Photos Part 1]; [|Blogging Photos Part 2]